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This is the world's biggest train set which covers
12,380 square feet, features
almost six miles of track and is still not complete
Twin brothers Frederick and Gerrit Braun, 41,
began work on the 'Miniatur Wonderland' in 2000
The set covers six regions including America, Switzerland,
Scandinavia, Germany and the Austrian Alps.
The American section features giant models of the
Rocky Mountains, Everglades, Grand Canyon
..and Mount Rushmore.
The Swiss section has a mini-Matterhorn
The Scandinavian part has a 4ft long passenger ship
floating in a 'fjord'
It is expected to be finished in 2014, when the train
set will cover more than 19,376 sq ft
and feature almost 13 miles of track, by which time detailed
models of parts of France, Italy and the UK will have been added
It comprises 700 trains with more than 10,000 carriages
and wagons.
The longest train is 46ft long.
The scenery includes 900 signals, 2,800 buildings,
4,000 cars - many with illuminated headlights...
..and 160,000 individually designed figures
Thousands of pounds of steel and wood was used
to construct the scenery...
The 250,000 lights are rigged up to a system which mimics
night and day by automatically turning them on and off.
The whole system is controlled from a massive
high-tech nerve centre.
In total the set has taken 500,000 hours and more than
8 million to put together, the vast majority of which has
come from ticket sales.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_oDdGmKyA]Miniatur Wunderland *** old corporate video *** largest model railway / railroad in the world - YouTube[/ame]
12,380 square feet, features
almost six miles of track and is still not complete
Twin brothers Frederick and Gerrit Braun, 41,
began work on the 'Miniatur Wonderland' in 2000
The set covers six regions including America, Switzerland,
Scandinavia, Germany and the Austrian Alps.
The American section features giant models of the
Rocky Mountains, Everglades, Grand Canyon
..and Mount Rushmore.
The Swiss section has a mini-Matterhorn
The Scandinavian part has a 4ft long passenger ship
floating in a 'fjord'
It is expected to be finished in 2014, when the train
set will cover more than 19,376 sq ft
and feature almost 13 miles of track, by which time detailed
models of parts of France, Italy and the UK will have been added
It comprises 700 trains with more than 10,000 carriages
and wagons.
The longest train is 46ft long.
The scenery includes 900 signals, 2,800 buildings,
4,000 cars - many with illuminated headlights...
..and 160,000 individually designed figures
Thousands of pounds of steel and wood was used
to construct the scenery...
The 250,000 lights are rigged up to a system which mimics
night and day by automatically turning them on and off.
The whole system is controlled from a massive
high-tech nerve centre.
In total the set has taken 500,000 hours and more than
8 million to put together, the vast majority of which has
come from ticket sales.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_oDdGmKyA]Miniatur Wunderland *** old corporate video *** largest model railway / railroad in the world - YouTube[/ame]
